On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:56:25PM -0700, lawalsh wrote:
> I recently bought large disk (250Gb, previous largest was 150, all
> 1 xfs partition mk'ed with default params). mk'd this one with
> -i size=2048 and -b size=8192, got output:
> ...
> a factor; oops....seems to be xfs specific bug.
Blocksize cannot be larger than pagesize - the kernel is right
to fail this mount request.
> Hmmm....I thought linux page size was 8K (?). Shouldn't 8K block size also
> work?
Page size depends on your architecture - for i386, its 4k.
> If that is the problem, any idea when xfs will be able to use block
> sizes > page size?
Not any time soon. AFAIK no Linux filesystems have implemented
this -- there are assumptions scattered throughout the generic
Linux file IO / page cache code that the blocksize will not be
larger than the page size.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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